Is there an open source alternative to the stackoverflow model?

Question

Hello,

I'm interesting in creating a web site similar to stackoverflow. As I'm usually interested in OSS I'd like to know if someone knows about the existence of other Q&A sites whose sources are licensed under an open-source license (not interested which license as long as I can use it - GPL, Apache, BSD, MIT ...).

Thank you,

Iulian

PS: The site would most likely run on a Linux machine with Apache or any other open source web server.

Answer 1

Stacked seems to be the most recognized one, however I'm not sure how closely their code base would resemble StackOverflows.

Answer 2

Stack overflow software is available for hosted sites too. Then you can get an almost identical site, at a cost of course (with some exceptions).

http://www.stackexchange.com/

Otherwise I think you're down to using the previously mentioned stacked, or one of the forum software solutions, which are not really the same Q&A format.